The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-28
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
Views of Susan B. Anthony As To It's Pro-
gress-SenatOr ingalls, Must Be Beaten.

Washington Special.
Does the vote in the Senate mean progressY"
repeated Miss Anthony after me when l asked
her that question. "Does the vote in the Senate
mean progressq Well, should say it did. It
was the longest leap the suffrage movement has
ever taken. We have been waiting and working
twenty-five years for this blessed day.
We are prouder and happier than we
can tell We haven't had such
good time in years as at our meeting this
morning. Just think of it! Twenty two years
work eliminated yesterday in the vote in the
Senate" and Miss Anthony pulled herself to-
gether proudly ''fhis is the first time" she
continued, that the question of woman suffrage
has ever been voted upon directly, in Con-
II should think it was progress; we
have been coming to Congress for
twenty-five years, and in this blessed day of our
Lord we have got vote at last While it does
not como within long way of the two thirds
that we must have there was ns large a vote in
our favor as we expected. Sixteen Senator'S
voted yea, seven more were paired in our favor,
and that makes twenty three Then there we're
five or six absent who would have voted with u.s.
which shows that from twenty-five to thirty
Senators are in favor of woman suffrage. Now,
isn't that progress2
tinued Miss Anthony II never thought he
would do such thing. We have always
counted him for us, and we had good right to.
because he has contributed literally to carry on
our work, and we supposed, of course, that he
would vote the same way he shot But you
never can tell. That vote was revelation N
many other respects; know now who
our friends are 1t is all right for the Sena,
tors and members OF Congress to
say pleasant words to and act the gallant gen.
tleman. but that is not what we are after. What
we want IS votes, votes, votes. The roll-call in
the Senate yesterday shows us just who our
friends are. 1t was not test of poiteness, but
test OF principles, and we know now where to
go to work and what to do Hitherto we have
been working in the dark to a certain extent,
| cropping along for general results; now we have
got basis to go on and will organize at once.
.What are we going to dot We are going to
attend few frst-class funerals, and we are no.
| going as mourners, either. We are going as un-
| dertakers We will furnish the corpses; we will
| dig the graves; we will preach the sermons, and
| we will attend the wakes We start out this
morning to carry the war into Africa. We shall
organize in every State, and kill off those VINO
voted against rs. ingalls, has got to go.
| He misrepresents the sentiment OF
| his State; the Legislature of Kansas
| has large majority in favor of woman suffrage
| it now has bill under consideration to give
| women vote at municipal elections; there is g
majority of seven in favor Of it in the State Sen
ate and an overwhelming majority in the House
| The Republican platform of Kansas declares IL
| favor of woman suffrage. and ingalls, misrepre
| sents it. He must CO. and there are others who
| must follow him into private life. We know
where to strike now, and we shall strike hard.
What we need is Moses with his magic
! wand to punish continued Miss Anthony. with
the seven plaques of Egypt those Saxon rulers
| for their tergiversations No doubt, locusts
| frogs, f1ies hail, thckeEed darkness, the Poto
mac and Thames rivers turned TO blood, would
have effect in the halls of legislation thar
the most logical arguments. Moses knew tina
tender appeals would have no effect or
Pharaoh, and he told Jehovah that, as he was slow
of tongue and had not the gift of eloquence some
| more active measures must oe devised 20 nrine
| the king to terms For nearly a quarter of
century we have tried appeals, petitions argu
ments, with thrilling quotations from our great
est lurists and statesmen and 10. in the year o
our Lord 1887, the hest answer we can wiring from
Senators Brown and Cockrell in the shape of
minority report, is chImney-corner letter
written by woman ignorant of the first princi
pies of republican government, which, they say
gives better statement of the whole question
than they are capable of producing"
The fret vote cast in the United States Senat
by Charles B. Farwell was in favor of a consti
tutional amendment granting the right of sui
frage to woman, and Susan B. Anthony SAYS h
is too sweet for anything.